City police said the teenager was shot in the head shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday in the 6200 block of Fairlawn Avenue.

Police said no arrests have been made in the case so far.

Tuesday afternoon, investigators were back on Fairlawn Avenue.

"When the officers got there, they found a young girl, 16 to be exact, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. The medics did pronounce her dead on the scene," said Detective Donny Moses, with the Baltimore City police.

It took a day to identify her as 16-year-old Ahjee Harrod of East Baltimore.

Within hours, word spread and thousands of people "liked" a memorial page on Facebook in her honor.

A family member, who did not want to be identified because she was worried about her own safety, said Ahjee was a student at the Baltimore Community High School who dreamed of becoming an actress.

"She just loved the power of words. She loved poetry ever since she was very little. We would just find pieces of balled up paper with her poems and her thoughts," her relative said.

But it's not clear when Ahjee last attended school.

"She had a few tough weeks, but it's all just part of growing up," the relative said.

But police said it was more than that. They said Ahjee was well-known to police and was reported missing months ago.

The family member said she talked to Ahjee on Saturday and told her to come home and to start going to school, but she said Ahjee hung up on her.

"And I never would think in a million years that would be the last time I hear her little voice because she was still a baby. I don't care what happened. She was still only 16," she said.

Family members said they have no idea why Ahjee might have been in Northwest Baltimore.

Baltimore city police are asking anyone who might know anything that could help them solve this case to contact them.

Police said they found the unidentified victim around 9:30 p.m. Monday in the 600 block of Dumbarton Avenue. The man was taken to a hospital but did not survive.There's no word yet on a suspect or motive in that case, either.